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Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Devils will play their 2012-13 regular season opener on Saturday, Jan. 19 against the Islanders, The Record has learned.

The NHL schedule has been evolving over the last few days, but as of today, the Devils will open on Long Island.

Their home opener is expected to be Tuesday, Jan. 22. I don’t know the opponent, yet.

It is entirely possible the Devils will open with three games in four days.

Several other openers have been reported already.

I can confirm the Rangers will open on Saturday in Boston and then play their home opener the next day against Pittsburgh.

The full schedule won’t be released until after the players’ ratification vote is completed and the new CBA is signed Saturday. The players are scheduled to begin voting on the CBA at 8 p.m. today and the voting will conclude at 8 a.m. Saturday.

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.